CONTENTS. VII 



Page, 

 Vublieations— Conti n lied . 



Library of the Institution — Continued. 



Annual accessions deposited mainly in the Library of Congress 40 



Total additions of books during the fiscal year 4U 



Some of the more important accessions 41 



Zoological park ;.......:. 42 



Collections of living animals , : - 4'2 



Bill introduced in Senate for zoological park 43 



Favorable reception of the project by the iiress of the country 44 



Art and miscellaneous subjects 45 



Art collections 4n 



Assignment of rooms for scientific work 46 



Toner lecture fund 47 



American Historical Association 47 



Eighth centenary of the University of Bologna 47 



Grants and. subscriptions 48 



Privilege of the floor of the House of Kepresentatives - 48 



Reception' _ ^ 46 



Employes of the Institution 48 



United States Nation a l Museum 49 



General considerations 48 



Insufficiency of present building 50 



Extent of the collections 51 



Tabular statement of annual increase 5- 



Accessions received from the Departments of Government 53 



Lecturer, and meetings in the Museum lecture hall 54 



Educational work of the Museum t)5 



Publications of the Museum 50 



Additions to the Museum Librarj^ 56 



Collections made by the Museum during the year 57 



Participation in the Minneapolis Exhibition 58 



Act authorizing participation in the Cincinnati Exhibition 59 



Objections to the dispersion of Museum collections atfrequeut exhibitions 61 



Bureau of Ethnology 62 



Field work ^'2 



Mound explorations 62 



General field studies. 64 



Office work - 69 



Linguistic researclies 69 



Bibliographies of North American languages in preparation 71 



Ancient relics collected 72 



Publications of the Bureau 74 



Necrology 75 



Chief- Justice Morrison R. Waite, Chancellor 75 



Prof. S. F. Baird, Secretary 77 



Prof. Asa Gray, Regent 89 



Dr. Peter Parker, ex-Regent ^1 



Dr. Charles Rau, Curator - ^1 



Other employes ^'^ 



Appendix to Report of the Secretary S5 



I. Programme of organization of the Smithsonian Institution 95 



II. Smithsonian publications of the year 99 



III. Report of Curator of international exchanges 103 



IV. Circulars respecting periodicals 117 



V. Organization of the Smithsonian Library 119 



